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+# Sovereign Mesh: Multi-Agent Orchestration Protocol v1.0
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+This document defines the "Sovereign Mesh" — the protocol for coordinating a fleet of local-first AI agents without a central authority.
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+## 1. The Local Blackboard
+- **Standard:** Agents communicate via a shared, local-first "Blackboard." 
+- **Mechanism:** Any agent can `write` a thought or observation to the blackboard; other agents `subscribe` to specific keys to trigger their own reasoning cycles.
+- **Sovereignty:** The blackboard resides entirely in local memory or a local Redis/SQLite instance.
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+## 2. Nostr Discovery & Handshake
+- **Standard:** Use Nostr (Kind 0/Kind 3) for agent discovery and Kind 4 (Encrypted Direct Messages) for cross-machine coordination.
+- **Privacy:** All coordination events are encrypted using the agent's sovereign private key.
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+## 3. Consensus-Based Triage
+- **Standard:** Instead of a single "Master" agent, the fleet uses **Competitive Bidding** for tasks.
+- **Process:** 
+  1. A task is posted to the Blackboard.
+  2. Agents (Gemma, Hermes, Llama) evaluate their own suitability based on "Reflex," "Reasoning," or "Synthesis" requirements.
+  3. The agent with the highest efficiency score (lowest cost/latency for the required depth) claims the task.
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+## 4. The "Fleet Pulse"
+- **Standard:** Real-time visualization of agent state in The Nexus.
+- **Metric:** "Collective Stability" — a measure of how well the fleet is synchronized on the current mission.
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+*One mind, many bodies. Sovereignty through coordination.*